Tiina's giveaway

יום רביעי, 30 בנובמבר 2016

Thank you for your sympathetic comments on the disastrous fires in my country. The fires are extinguished now. There remains only the tragedy of five hundred homeless families and hundreds of more houses with serious damage. Very sad but at least, thank God, no loss of lives.

Here is the list of the participants in my giveaway draw, as per order of comments:

First of all, before I announce the winner, let me thank you all for taking part in this giveaway.

The winner is Carmen. Carmen please email me your address and I'll post your parcel so it will get to you, hopefully, before Christmas.

There is also an extra prize for May - Anisnofla. May, very generously, sent me a surprise gift which lamentably didn't reach me. But in view of this very touching gesture I decided to make another fairy house, fairy and birdbath especially for you May. Dear May, sweet unexpected gestures like yours are what makes it so special about online friendships. I love being part of this miniatures blog-globe. Please email me your address.

יום שישי, 25 בנובמבר 2016

We are going through a very bad time here in Israel. The combination of dry climate and strong dry winds made it possible for fires to pop up everywhere, from north to south of the country. Some of the fires due to neglect and many caused on purpose as acts of terrorism.

We are sitting and watching TV and listening to the radio waiting for the news and hoping for the fires to die out. In my beautiful hometown Haifa, 13 entire neighborhoods were evacuated. Houses burned down and left a great number of families homeless. Hundreds of firefighters and lots of firefighting planes are working the last 3 days and nights. We are very grateful for the help of neighboring countries who sent firefighting planes.

My grand daughter and family were evacuated from their village on the way to Jerusalem. The village is situated close to a forest which was on fire with smoke all over the place. They stayed at
my daughter's home. Luckily no harm was caused there.

The meeting with our group is scheduled for 7 December. We are going to have a flower workshop and I am looking forward for the pleasure and fun of reuniting with the girls. Meantime, on top of preparing Christmas and Hanukkah gifts I was busy creating a swap for each member of our group. I'll know exactly how many will attend only a day before the meeting and hope these ten pieces will be enough.
It's a little boring to make the same items over and over but this way I can make sure that I don't offer the same gift again.

It's not hard to guess who ate the original balls, it was I. I ate all 10 but not all at once. Just saved the

יום שישי, 11 בנובמבר 2016

At the end of this month, my blog will be celebrating six years. Six years and 359 posts in English which is not my original language. But let's guess, how many among my followers would be able to understand my posts if I wrote them in Hebrew? Please forgive all my grammar and spelling mistakes. This year, because of my beautiful 7 years old great-grand daughter Moon, I began to create fairy items in miniature. That's why my giveaway is a little fairy house, including the fairy and a tiny bird bath.

If you want to take part in the draw, please make a comment under this post. The draw is open until November 30, 2016, for old and new followers anywhere on the globe.

יום שישי, 4 בנובמבר 2016

After saying goodby to the Skellies, the cats accompanied Baalatova home. On the way they helped her search for her lost magic wand in vain. They promised to keep on searching and went back to the Skellies.

Well, October has vanished but not before I had fun fooling around with the Skellies and Baalatova crazy story.

Baalatova was happy to be back. Everything was right in place awaiting her return.

Baalatova is a gift from Sarit who created her face and hat and helped me put her together.

On the table is a mouthwatering blood and eyes cake, baked by Tatiana. She immediately sat down and served herself a piece.

Also on the table are very old pages containing magic secrets sent by Birgit, Birgit also sent the beautiful bronze unicorn which I used as a decoration one on one of the books. I made the books and scrolls.

Meet Baalatova's cat Meffi (Short for Meffisto) created by Tatiana and adopted on spot by Baalatova .

The candles on the fireplace are gifts ( left to right) from Tatiana, Birgit and Jane.

On the shelve, under the window are gifts from Maria. On the wall are souvenir miniature clay sculptures from our unforgettable visit to San Agustin, Colombia.

We read Erich Von Daniken's book, Chariots of the Gods, and decided to go there by car, against the advice of all our friends in Bogota. It took us two days to get there from Bogota but it was worth it! The site is pure magic. (That was about 20 year ago. sigh)

https://sacredsites.com/americas/colombia/san_augustin.html

Potion bottles on the second shelve are created by Kikka The cute little bronze dragon is a gift from Birgit. The bats and cat are gifts from Maria.

As you see Baalatova is a very famous and lucky witch. She has friends all over the world. She received gifts from Israel, Ukraine, Germany, USA, Ireland, Finland and Italy. There is even one gift from Greece. It's on the window sill outside. I'll post about it when the exterior of the house will be finished.

And so, my friends, the interior is finished (There is always room for improvement. It's now left to work on the exterior. I can give you a glimpse but there is a lot of work to be done yet.

The stone work has to be finished, lots of greenery, creeping vines, etc. Adding a bedroom on the roof.....It's all to be accomplished until next Halloween.

Now I've time to begin to prepare the Christmas and Hanukkah gifts as well as host my 6th blog anniversary giveaway, soon to be announced.

יום רביעי, 2 בנובמבר 2016

Achinoam, a member of our miniaturists group in Israel, is leaving the country to live in Barcelona, Spain. This sweet young person is selling most of her miniatures stock at cost price. Sarit, my friend
and I went to buy what we needed we found some, not much. When we got there it was almost the end of the sale.

I was looking for tiny animals and found a couple of very cute white mice and three tiny bathroom toy ducks.

An antique telephone.

And this was the best of all.

It even includes a stand.

Doesn't the case look a little like a coffin? (Halloween still in the air)

I have a special request for my dear blog friends in Barcelona. Please, if any of you can get in
touch with Achinoam when she comes to Barcelona. She may need friends and helpful information such as where to buy craft material, miniature shops and miniatures fairs. I leave her website and email here bellow.

WWW.belina.co.il
info@belina.co.il

Thank you.

My grandson brought me candies from Japan which look like tiny dolls.

In fact they are not dolls (sadly). They are two plain white candy balls. The painting of the wrapping is what makes them look like dolls.

פרטים עלי

My name is Drora. My hobbies are dollhouse miniatures, classical music, folklore arts and crafts from all over the world. My interests are languages and books.
I collect dollhouse miniatures and also make some myself. I have a small collection of books on this subject and for a long while subscribed to a dollhouse magazine.